Creatures

Famous quotes containing the word creatures:

“I fear that we are such gods or demigods only as fauns and satyrs, the divine allied to beasts, the creatures of appetite, and that, to some extent, our very life is our disgrace.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“Upon the creatures we have made,
We are, ourselves, at last, dependent.”
—Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832)

“Oh the nerves, the nerves; the mysteries of this machine called man! Oh the little that unhinges it, poor creatures that we are!”
—Charles Dickens (1812–1870)